Monday, August 26, 2013

I Have 100 Days Already in my Mission!

Benjamin at his baptism on August 24, 2013.

This week was CRAZY!!! We started off with having to bless a haunted
house of the father of one of our investigators. It was really
creepy! Things would randomly just fall throughout the day and night and
they kept seeing things and feeling weird things! But after the blessing all
the father could talk about was God and the blessing that he has received and
that he wants to be baptized in the near future and now we are going to try and
pass by and teach him. The bikes are still my worst enemy...This past
week we had interviews with he president which we have every 3 months. It
didn't go so well. My companion has been really disobedient. I'm
still new and wasn't really sure how to handle it. I just tried to
motivate him as best as possible and keep it a secret for the time being.
Well, we had the interview and I entered not planning on talking about
this with president.. but during the meeting I felt the really strong
impression to talk about it so I did. It was pretty awkward for a few
days. The president called and said that we would finish out these
next 2 weeks before the actual companion change of the mission. I will
probably be staying here again for the next change which is awesome:) I
love it here and I know pretty much all of the people and have developed
relationships with them! The other big thing this week was our baptism
yesterday! We baptized the son of Roman and Karol! It was so crazy
spiritual! The mom of Karol came... she is Catholic and wanted nothing to
do with our church...Benjamin invited her and she attended. Well, lets
just say that she was in tears and all she could talk about was how spiritual
the experience was and how beautiful our church is and this path that Benjamin
is taking and how she felt so calm and peaceful! Its so amazing how the
spirit works in people! we wiil be passing by her house soon as well to
begin teaching her, hopefully! :) I definitely learned some really good
lessons for myself and for my mission! Its such a good opportunity to be
here and I'm really enjoying it!

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